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- Each designated airline may on any or all flights on the agreed services, change aircraft in the territory of the other Contracting Party or at any point along the specified routes, provided that:
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- a)aircraft used beyond the point of change of aircraft shall be scheduled in coincidence with the inbound or outbound aircraft, as the case may be;
- b)in the case of change of aircraft in the territory of the other Contracting Party and when more than one aircraft is operated beyond the point of change, the total capacity and payload of these aircrafts combined shall not be more than the capacity and payload of the aircraft operating on the third and fourth freedom sector.
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- For the purpose of change of aircraft operations and for the purpose of operations on the whole route, a designated airline may use its own equipment and, subject to national regulations, leased equipment, and may operate under commercial arrangements with another airline.
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- A designated airline may use different or identical flight numbers for the sectors of its change of aircraft operations. However, neither designated airline shall hold itself out to the public by advertisement or otherwise as providing a service which originates as the point of change of aircraft, unless otherwise permitted to do so.